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Yankees’ DJ LeMahieu active but not starting on Opening Day

DJ LeMahieu is back in time for Opening Day.

He’s not in the starting lineup, but the Yankees put LeMahieu on their roster Thursday prior to their scheduled season-opener against the Nationals in Washington, D.C. Tyler Wade is starting at second base.

LeMahieu missed the start of spring training 2.0 after testing positive for COVID-19 as part of MLB’s intake testing and he remained quarantined in Michigan before reporting to The Bronx. He had been on the COVID-19 injured list.

In other roster news, the Yankees also recalled INF Thairo Estrada and right-handers Michael King and Ben Heller from their alternate site in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.